Bottle-washing machine.



o. 693,589. Patented Feb. l8, I902.

' c. A. COLE.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed June 13, 1901.) 7

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No. 693,589. Patented Feb. l8, I902.

C. A. COLE.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed June 13, 1901.)

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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- c. A. COLE.

BOTTLE WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed June 13, 1901.)

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BQTTLE WASHlNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 693,589, dated February 18, 1902.

I Application filed June 13, 1901. Serial No. 64,352. No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, CHARLES A. COLE, a cit zen of the United States, residing at Poland, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented certaip new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Washing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for washingbottles and is designed to operate automatically, the bottles being placed upon a revolving drum'and being presented while held on said drum to the washing apparatus, which has a rotary and reciplocating-motion relative to said drum. It is also designed when desired to wash the outside of the bottle, exceptthe bottom, simultaneously with the inside. It is also designed, when desired, to wash the outside bottom of the .bottle after the walls and inside bottom have been washed.

It also relates to certain details of coiistruction involving mechanism and combinations of mechanism incidental to the main apparatus of my invention, all of which will be hereinafter more fully described, reference being had to the drawings herewith accompanying and making a part of this application.

The apparatus may be adapted to wash a single bottle or the parts may be duplicated, so as to wash a plurality of bottles simultaneously, that shown being adapted to wash two bottles at a time.

jaws. .Fig. 5 is an end view'of the drum, showing lever for operating the jaws. Fig. 6 is a detail view of mechanism for operating the reciprocating carriage. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of my improved scrubbing device. Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view 'aken on line X X, Fig. 7.-

Same letters refer to like parts in the several figures.

In the drawings, A represents a suitable frame adapted to support my washing mechanism. Mounted transversely of said frame at one end is a revolving drum B, having sets of two clamping-jaws O and O, spaced apart circumferentially upon said drum, one jaw O of each set being movable relative to the other, the movable jaws of the set diametrically opposite each other being adapted to be operated simultaneously and to he opened by means of lever D, actuated by a cam D"through, an intermediate lever D pivoted to the frame, and a flexible ohai D which may, if desired, passover an antifriction-roll D upon the main frame. The end of the lever strikes against blocks D, to which the movable jaws are attached by means of rods D. The jaws'are held normally closed by coil-springs D The drum has an intermittent rotary motion imparted to it by means of a pawl X engaging a ratchet X, secured to the shaft of the drum. As shown, the pawl is pivotally mounted on the end of a lever X pivoted to the frame, and is held in engagement with the ratchet by means of spring X. The opposite end of the lever X is actuated by aspring X whiclyconstantly tends to throw the pawl. end of the lever up. The return movement of the pawl is eifected by means of a cam X on the main shaft, which engages one end of a crank-lever X", the other end being connected with the end of the pawl-operatinglever by a link X Both movements of the pawl actuating the lever may be accomplished by a cam movement, if desired. The upward throw of the pawl-actuating lever is limited by the lever coming in contact with a block X on the tween bracket E and the revolving drum I locate a reciprocating carriage F and mount in said bracket and carriage a reciprocating rod G. Supported on said rod are yokes H and Ladapted to reciprocate therewith. Passing through the ends of said yokes and carriage and rigidly secured to the yokes are water-pipes J. The pipes aforesaid have 'a stuffing-box connection J with a water-supply pipe L andarerotated by means-of a belt M, passing over pulleys N, secured to said pipe. Thesupporting-rod G, the supportingyokes H andI, and the water-pipe J are given a long reciprocation by means of lever-O, operated by a cam Pen the main shaft. The

carriage F has a reciprocating movement independent of the water-pipe, the forward motion being given by means of a weight Q and spring Q, one or both, attached to the arm Q of a T-lever R, pivotally mounted in the frame'and pivotally secured to the carriage atone end, the other endbeing operated by a cam R to return the carriage. Concentric with the water-pipe is a sleeve S,having at its end-a receiver S to engage the month of abottle. In order thatthe receiver may have a yielding contact with the bottle to accommodate it to bottles of slightly-varying length,

I interpose a spring S between the receiver and the sleeve. This sleeve S is reciprocated by the carriage, and the receiver is located relative to the scrubber T, secured to the end of the water-pipe, so that-the reciprocation of the pipe draws the scrubber into the sleeve, compressing the yielding spring-arms T of the scrubber, so that they may readily enter the-bottle as the pipe moves -forward. It will be evident that the armswill tend to separate as the scrubber enters the bottle, bringing the scrubbing-surfaces T uniformly .in contact with/the walls of the bottle, the

- berT being both reciprocated by the rod G traverse the walls of the bottle at the same time. The sleeve TV is rotated by means of a belt V, passing over a pulley V on the sleeve. A section L of the water-pipe terminates adjacent the brushes and, reciprocating therewith, projects a spray of water upon the outside of the bottle contiguous to thebrushes.

To provide for the washing of the outside bottoms oflthe-bottles, I place under the drum a rotary post Y, carrying a series ofbottleholding cups Y, arranged circumferentially into the bottle at the same around said post, the post and cups being adapted to be rotated by the drum through a'gear Y on the shaft of the drum, intermediategear Y and bevel-gears Y. Each quartor-rotation of the drum thus brings one of the cups directly under the jaws on the under side of the drum and when the bottle is discharged it falls into the cup bottom up. A brush-Z has a vertically-reciprocating motion imparted to it by means of a lever Z, actuated by a cam Z on the main shaft. This brush is givena rotary motion by means of a pulley Z secured to the shaft Z on which the brush is set; The cups are spaced apart, so that while one presents a bottle to be washed another is ready to receive a bottle from the jaws.

The scrubber which I find most effectiveand durable consists of. a metal chain, the ends attached to the spring-arms midway their length and passing loosely over the ends through a tubular section T of the springarms.

The several parts of the machine are ad- 3' usted and timed so that an operator can place the bottles in the clamping-jaws and remove them from the cups into which they are discharged from said jaws,the operation of washing as to all part's, including the proper positioning of the bottle, being entirely auto- ,matic.

The operation of my bottle-washing machine is as followszThe bottles are placed bottom down upon the drum between the clam ping-jaws. The drum is then rotated a quarter-turn, which brings the bottles thus placed into a horizontal position and in the path of the outside and inside washing mechanism. The bottles rest here until the reciprocation of theinside and outside washing mechanism. quarter-turn and the clamping-jaws automatically release the bottles, whichfall by gravity into the rotary cups bottom up, when the bottom-washing mechanism descends upon the bottoms of the bottles and completes the washing; The operation will be continuous as long as .bottles are fed at each quarterrotation into the clarnping-jaws on the top of the drum.

Having thus described my invention and its use, I-clai|nv 1. Ida bottle washingmachine, a rotating drum, means for holding bottles on the periphery thereof extending in a radial direction, means for automatically-and periodically releasing said bottles, and a scrubber adaptedto have a reciprocating motion and positioned to enter and withdraw from a bottle on the drum at each reciprocation.

2. In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary. drum, means for holding bottles on the periph ery thereof extending in a radial direction, means for automatically and periodically releasing said bottles, means for rotating said The drum then rotates another drum, a scrubber and means for imparting a simultaneous rotary and reciprocating motion to said scrubber, said scrubber and drum be ing positioned so that the reciprocating mo- .tion of the scrubber causes it to enter and scrubbercauses it to enter and withdraw from a bottle secured on said drum.

4. In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary d rum, means for holding bottles on the periphery thereof extending in a radial direction, means for automatically and periodically releasing said'bottles', a simultaneously reciprocating and rotating scrubber positioned so that the reciprocationof the scrubber causes it to enter and withdrawfrom a bottle on the drum and means for introducing a stream of water into the bottle simultaneously with the scrubber.

5. In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary drum, a reciprocating androtating scrubber comprising a hollow pipe and compressible members secured to the end thereof, a sleeve surrounding said compressible members when the scrubber is drawn back, a yielding receiver at the end of said sleeve to receive the mouth of a bottle on the drum, all positioned so that .the reciprocation of thescrubber causes it to enter and withdraw from the bottle.

6. In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary drum, a series of bottle-holding jaws spaced apart circumferentially around said drum and means for opening and closing said jaws, each set of jaws diametrically opposite each other acting simultaneously and alternately to the set at right angles thereto.

7. In a bottlewashing machine, a rotary drum provided with bottle-holders, a simultaneously rotating and reciprocating scrubber positioned to enter and withdraw from a bottle supported in said holders ateach reciprocation of the scrubber, means for introduc ing a stream of Water into the bottle simultaneously with the scrubber and a brush adapted to reciprocate and rotate in contact with the outside of a bottle thus held and means for projecting a stream of water upon the outside of the bottle. I

8. In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary drum provided with bottle-holding jaws and means for imparting a periodical quarter-rotation to said drum, means for holding the jaws normally against the bottle when the bottle is in a horizontal position and means for opening the jaws to receive and discharge the .bottle when in a vertical position.

9. In a bottle-washing machine, a suitable supporting-frame, a rotary drum'provided with bottle-holding jaws on the periphery thereof adapted to hold bottles projecting therefrom in a radial direction, means for au-.

tomatically operating said jaws to clamp or release the bottles, and a bottle-washing de-' vice consistingof a reciprocating and rotatingpipe carrying on one end a scrubber consisting of flexible spring-arms, a stationary sleeve adapted to receive and compress the yielding scrubber-arms as the scrubber is drawn back and means for imparting a linr,

ited reciprocating motion to said sleeve.

10. In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary drum provided with bottle-holding devices, a simultaneously reciprocating and rotating pipe provided with a scrubber composed of j spring-arms tending to spread apart, a sleeve surrounding said pipe and adapted to have an independent reciprocating motion, an outside rotary sleeve carrying a reciprocating and rotating scrubber and a reciprocating pipe adapted to discharge a stream of water contiguous to said last-named scrubber.-

11. "In a bottle-washing machine, a rotary drum, means for holding bottles on the periphery thereof, means for automatically and periodically releasing said bottles, a simul-- taneously rotating and reciprocating scrubher, a' reciprocating sleeve concentric with means for discharging bottles from said jaws,

a series of rotating receptacles adapted to receive and support the bottles bottom up, as they are discharged from the jaws, means for rotating said receptacles periodically, abrush I adaptedto wash the bottom of the bottles and means for imparting a rotary'and verticallyreciprocating motion to said brush.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 25th day May, 1901.

CHARLES A. COLE.

Witnesses:

HIRAM W. RIOKER, ELGIN C. VERRILL. 

